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...second and third rooms of the exhibitdisplay other important works from the 70s and 80sthat reflect the social and intellectual turmoilof the period. Vasilii Maksimov's humorouslytitled genre scene, "It's All In The Past," (1889)shows the crumbling lifestyle of the countrygentry: an old woman dreams in front of her oncegrand, but now delapidated old house...
...Vasilii Perov was one of the dominant figuresof the period, as well as a founding member of theCircle of the Itinerants. His work reflects anintense compassion for the suffering of thepeople, and his work comprises scenes of theeveryday tragedies of peasant life. In "A DrownedWoman," all the humiliation and injury of peasantliving is dramatized in one image of everydaytragedy: a peasant woman clad in black lies washedup on the shore, her hands and feet intertwinedwith seaweed. The yellows, browns and blacks ofthe painting are not beautiful, but they reflectPerov's artistic asceticism, his willingness tosacrifice prettiness for the sake...
...Vasilii Vereshchagi, an independent painter,depicted scenes from his travels as well as imagesof battles and bloodshed that had haunted Russiaafter the disastrous and bloody Crimean War. Thespontenaity of his "Mortally Wounded" (1873) showsmodern war's horrors: sketched in broadbrushstrokes, the lone soldier lunges toward us,clutching his wound instead of his gun which liesforgotten on the ground behind...
...Vasilii Kandinsky, perhaps the mostinternationally famous artist in the exhibit, isrepresented by a small landscape. Againtraditional in subject, "The Summer Landscape"(1909) gives a hint of his future in its electricyellows, blues and greens, its complete avoidanceof aerial perspective and the almost abstractshape of the regions of colors. Clearly, theexhibit does not intend to provide in this lastroom a thorough indication of the direction ofmodern art at the beginning of the twentiethcentury. Rather, by showing the early works of thegreat Russian moderns, the exhibit tries tounderscore not the newness of these painters, buttheir origins in the traditions of Russianpainting...
...good intentions stamped all over it. Originally published in Germany in 1971 (and still banned in the Soviet Union), the book is a loose recounting of 20th century Russian history seen through the eyes of three aging brothers. Pyotr and Andrei Lashkov have become provincial Communist Party functionaries, while Vasilii acts as a morose janitor for a Moscow apartment house. All are profoundly disillusioned by the course their lives and land have taken. For them, the glorious future promised by the Revolution is not working, and Pyotr wonders...